Windows build failing - NMAKE : fatal error U1073

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Sat, May 02, 2015 at 03:52:50PM -0300, Thiago Farina wrote:

> On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru> wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > On Sat, May 02, 2015 at 01:51:20PM +1000, Alec Taylor wrote:
> >
> >> Following your guide: http://nginx.org/en/docs/howto_build_on_win32.html
> >>
> >> With a few edits, I then ran:
> >> ./configure --with-cc=cl --builddir=objs --prefix=
> >> --conf-path=conf/nginx.conf --pid-path=logs/nginx.pid
> >> --http-log-path=logs/access.log --error-log-path=logs/error.log
> >> --sbin-path=nginx.exe
> >> --http-client-body-temp-path=temp/client_body_temp
> >> --http-proxy-temp-path=temp/proxy_temp
> >> --http-fastcgi-temp-path=temp/fastcgi_temp
> >> --with-cc-opt=-DFD_SETSIZE=1024 --with-pcre=objs/lib/pcre-8.36
> >> --with-zlib=objs/lib/zlib-1.2.8 --with-openssl=objs/lib/openssl-1.0.1e
> >> --with-select_module --with-http_ssl_module --with-ipv6
> >> --add-module=../ngx-fancyindex
> >>
> >> Which succeeded. Finally I ran: `nmake -f objs/Makefile`, which gave
> >> the following output:
> >>
> >> Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 12.00.21005.1
> >> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
> >>
> >> NMAKE : fatal error U1073: don't know how to make 'src/os/win32/ngx_win32_config
> >> .h'
> >> Stop.
> >>
> >> How do I build nginx on Windows?
> >
> > It looks like you are trying to build from sources available in
> > release tarballs.  This won't work.
> This does not seem logical. Why it should not work?
> 
> It is common to build and install from release tarballs (at least on
> Unix). Why it should be different on Windows?

Historically, source tarballs does not contain some source files 
needed to build nginx on Windows.  Note that nginx/Windows is 
still considered to be "beta" and the build process is cumbersome.

See here for more details:

http://nginx.org/en/docs/windows.html
http://nginx.org/en/docs/howto_build_on_win32.html

-- 
Maxim Dounin
http://nginx.org/